well, the non-lefty rest of the british media have absolutely nothing to contribute to the brexit problem. and reading the guardian's comments provides me with enough brexiteers nonsense so that i don't feel the need to read the daily mail or the times ...

really. they sound as if they had all of the three years ahead. they will be out in march29. but they plan a referendum until then. and elections. and after referendum and election they need to form a new gouvernment, of course. which will then restart the negotiations with the eu, i guess.

this would only be feasable if the eu agreed to extend the exit timeframe. and why should the eu27 agree to that? the extension would lead to a severe disturbance of the parliamentary elections in the eu in may. and there is no hint that anything would change in the uk during that time.

another british delusion is that membership in the eea is kind of an automatic fallback:

I happen to support joining the European Economic Area (EEA) while remaining in a customs union

it isn't. the actual members have a say in that and the brits have no right to ignore them.

This reminds me of a thing I've read once in a estoretic magazine (just for fun, these magazines are hilarious if you don't have to pay for them): There was a supposedly renowned professor who claimed to have invented a perpetuum mobile (in the esoteric lingo: a "free energy machine") and was on a fair with his invention. The only thing the photo showed of his contraption was a closed crate - due to "patent issues" he was not allowed to unbox his invention and demonstrate it to the public No, this magazine/article was not meant to be satiric, it was meant to be serious - like the guy with his so-called plan

Frankly, I'm just so embarrassed to be British at the moment. A government of self-important idiots, spoilt schoolboys, and entitled thugs. I see "badly treated by the EU" bandied about so much when what they really mean is "Boo hoo. The nasty people wouldn't give me what I demanded. I shall sulk." It's mortifying that we don't seem to have any grown-ups in charge any more...

“What we will do is vote against having no deal, we’ll vote against Theresa May’s deal; at that point she should go back to Brussels and say this is not acceptable to Britain and renegotiate a customs union, form a customs union with the European Union to secure trade,” he said

so labour will not vote for may's deal. it sounds like labour also wouldn't vote for anything else, e.g. like an official exit from brexit notification as the eucj has made available for the brits. instead they expect may to go back to the eu27 and renegotiate the exit agreement with a completely different, new agenda.

no need to hurry! there is left all the time in the world.

of course not voting for the brexit deal availabe will not lead to a no-deal brexit. well founded logic! the late great philosopher t. pratchett would have called this not fuzzy logic but wooly thinking: a little like fuzzy logic but only less so.

the british electorate ist doomed. even more than the german one here ..

but i seriously doubt the brits will be able to stop this. the eucj ruling has made possible a unilateral exit from this brexit declaration according to article 50. but they set one hard obstacle:

It follows, in the first place, that, for as long as a withdrawal agreement concluded between the European Union and that Member State has not entered into force or, if no such agreement has been concluded, for as long as the two-year period laid down in Article 50(3) TEU, possibly extended in accordance with that provision, has not expired, that Member State [...] retains the ability to revoke unilaterally the notification of its intention to withdraw from the European Union, in accordance with its constitutional requirements.

and these constitutional requirements to withdraw from the withdrawal would certainly have to be that the british parlament would have to approve of the exit from brexit. it cannot be done by a simple letter from the government alone. and there seems to be no majority whatsoever in this regard.

without a withdrawal from brexit brexit will happen automatically in a little more than 2 months ...

“What we will do is vote against having no deal, we’ll vote against Theresa May’s deal; at that point she should go back to Brussels and say this is not acceptable to Britain and renegotiate a customs union, form a customs union with the European Union to secure trade,” he said

8. Will there still be plane connections between the UK and the EU in case of no deal? What exactly is the EU proposing to ensure this? What will happen if the UK does not reciprocate the measures taken by the EU?

In case of no deal, the Commission is proposing that "point-to-point" flight connections, i.e. connections from the territory of the United Kingdom to the territory of the EU27, are temporarily allowed on the basis of a unilateral measure. This measure will enter into force in case of no deal, if the United Kingdom reciprocates, and last until 30 March 2020. This is to avoid a full interruption of traffic between the EU and the United Kingdom. To ensure reciprocity, the proposal would enable the Commission to adopt appropriate measures, such as adjusting the allowable capacity available to UK air carriers, or requiring Member States to adapt, refuse, suspend or revoke the operating authorisations of UK air carriers, if the Commission were to determine that rights granted by the UK to EU air carriers are not equivalent to those granted to UK air carriers

the brits just ignored it. they act as if it were an automatic fallback, where the brits wouldn't have to do anything when their brexit blackmailing the eu27 fails. they were told over and over that this idea was wrong! a short look at the efta info on the internet would have told them. the norwegians had told them over and over again.

Lunde told the Guardian: “Really, the Norwegian option is not an option. We have been telling you this for one and a half years since the referendum and how this works, so I am surprised that after all these years it is still part of the grown-up debate in the UK. You just expect us to give you an invitation rather than consider whether Norway would want to give you such an invitation. It might be in your interest to use our agreement, but it would not be in our interest.”